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To: Cincinatus
Pluto


No one has seen the face of Pluto before Hubble's historic images.  Maps derived from Hubble data shaow that Pluto has the highest contrast between light and dark regions of any planet except Earth.

Pluto Specifications:
Year (Earth days) 60191.00
Day (Earth hours) 159h 19m
Diameter (km) 2400.00
Diameter (miles) 1500.00
Density (water = 1) 0.70
Moons 1.00
Surface Gravity (Earth = 1) 0.03
Mass (x10,000,000,000,000 Gigatons) 0.06
Distance from Sun (Million km) 5902.80
Distance from Sun (Million miles) 3667.90
Orbital Velocity (km/sec) <4.77
Orbital Velocity (miles/sec) <2.96

27 posted on 02/26/2002 12:20:47 PM PST by vannrox
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To: vannrox
I thought Pluto's orbit was oval (eliptical?) to the extent that it slips inside the orbit of Neptune a portion of the time?
42 posted on 02/26/2002 3:16:11 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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